The Latest: Attorney says he's gratified by former officer's release from South Carolina jail

Former North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager speaks during a hearing in front of Judge Clifton Newman in Charleston, S.C., Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. The state judge approved bail Monday for a former South Carolina police officer charged with killing an unarmed black motorist. (Brad Nettles/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)
(The Associated Press)

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The latest in the case of a former South Carolina police officer charged with killing an unarmed black motorist. All times local:

10:10 a.m.

The attorney for a former North Charleston police officer charged with murder in the shooting of a black motorist says he's gratified that a judge has allowed his client to post bond and remain under house arrest until his trial this fall.

Andy Savage released a statement Tuesday saying that his client, Michael Slager, is presumed innocent and should not be punished by a lengthy pretrial stay in jail.

Slager was released from the Charleston County jail late Monday after a judge agreed he could be released on a $500,000 bond.

Slager, who is white, faces a murder charge in the slaying last April of Walter Scott as Scott was fleeing a traffic stop.

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9:30 a.m.

Civil rights activists are planning to meet with reporters to discuss the release on bond of a former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist.

Members of the National Action Network scheduled the news conference for late Tuesday morning outside the Charleston County Detention Center.

Former North Charleston officer Michael Slager was released from the jail late Monday after posting $500,000 surety bond.

Slager is shown on cellphone video firing eight times as Walter Scott ran from a traffic stop last April.

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6:22 a.m.

The attorney for the family of a black motorist who was shot and killed running from a traffic stop says the family is disappointed that the former South Carolina policeman charged in the case has been released on bond.

But Justin Bamberg, the attorney for the family of Walter Scott, says the bond is just another step in the process and the family is confident justice will prevail.

Michael Slager is charged with murder in the shooting last April of Scott. Slager, a former North Charleston police officer, was released Monday evening on $500,000 bond.

He'll stay at an undisclosed location in South Carolina under house arrest until his trial, which is set to begin on Halloween. He's forbidden from having any contact with the victim's family.